Hi,
Because Anaconda doesn't support my usual partitioning scheme (root on Btrfs in LVM in LUKS in LVM in GPT, /boot on Btrfs, etc.), I created the entire layout manually and tried to install Fedora using dnf. The same layout works perfectly fine in ArchLinux.
I basically followed this howto, with adjustments for s/yum/dnf/ and for EFI/GPT: http://dustymabe.com/2014/05/29/manual-linux-installs-with-funky-storage-...
The initial filesystem installation (dnf install -y --releasever=23 --installroot=/mnt/sysimage filesystem) already got a few glitches of this form:
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package filesystem
This^^^ happened to roughly half of the installed packages. I tried to proceed with the rest (i.e., to install @core @standard kernel grub2 grub2-efi sihm grub2-tools), but it failed with scriptlet errors that prevented a few key packages from getting installed at all:
error: %prein(selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-157.fc23.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 126
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package selinux-policy-targeted
Packages with those errors are reported as failed after the verify step. What I tried next:
* setenforce 0
* upgrading the installation environment and/or the sysimage with dnf and rpm from rawhide
* --releasever=22 instead of 23
* ...and checking for a few other common points with this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270663
* a plain sysimage directory with no predefined Btrfs subvolumes in it
* unmounting, remounting, checking that everything has seclabel on, no weirdness in dmesg, etc.
Well, nothing of the above helped; the error is still the same.
How can I diagnose this? Where can I dig out the exact reason why the scriptlets are failing?
Provided that Anaconda actually does some steps that I'm missing and can carry out the installation correctly, is there a way to *force* it to just accept whatever is mounted into /mnt/sysimage at the moment, without trying to make sense of it? I'm pretty sure dracut can handle my partition layout just fine, so the entire issue here is about getting the basic installation done somehow.
Theoretically I could create a simple-and-stupid layout that Anaconda can handle, proceed with the installation and reshuffle the partitions afterwards, but that's sooo cumbersome that I thought I'd first ask whether someone knows a workaround to the scriptlet problems.
Cheers,
Andrej

Hi,
my computer boot only in emergency mode ...
Looking the journalctl (command journalctl -xb), I found (in thejournalctl
) these lines in red color :
ATA2:00: link is slow to respond....
(and after..)
ATA200: SRST failed (erro 16)
That seem indicate that it is a problem to access the HDs..
I found a possible solution to the problem in this post:
http://codeverge.com/opensuse.org.help.install/-solved-ata1-srst-failed-e...
There is wrote that :...the problem can depend by the physic set up of the
HD (as "master", "slave", "single drive", ...): this set up can be done by
changing the position of a jumper on the HD...
I know that, in the past time, the HDs had to be set physically in this
way.., but recently I never heart anymore that the modern HD need this
operation..
So actually I don't care anymore of the configuration of the HDs
(my HD is Toshiba 1 TB that I bought few mounts ago).
I would like to have a confirmation that what I read in the post is only an
obsolete information and, in any case, I would like to know also what I can
do to go around in my problem..
>From the command line: ls /dev/sd* I get:
give me this input :
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
Thank you
regards
Angelo

Hi,
I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have
internet connection before I run a few scripts. I would use the -z
option in particular. But now I see that has been removed:
$ nc -z imap.gmail.com 993 && sync-my-email.sh
ncat: invalid option -- 'z'
Here is the excerpt from the old manual page:
-z Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without
sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in
conjunction with the -l option.
Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement?
Thanks for any ideas.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.

The popular theme font size changer Firefox plugin,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/, no
longer supports Linux.
The default Firefox font size is too small for people with poor eyesight. As
far as I can tell, the only thing that official "Firefox themes" do is set a
background image for the UI. As Benny Hill would say, biiiiiiiiiiiiig …deal.
The top-ranked comment on that extension page suggests hacking "userChrome-
example.css" in ~/.mozilla/firefox.
$ find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name userChrome-example.css -print
$
There goes that idea.
Googling around the only other suggestion I found was to hack
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx setting in about:config. All that did, apparently,
was making the Firefox UI elements themselves bigger, but their font size –
the menu and the URL bar – remained exactly the same.
Anyone has other suggestions?

Hi,
I am trying to get the Taskbar Panel to autohide, but when I click on
the options button in the panel, the left, right and center options are
permanently highlighted but seem to function in terms of moving the
indicator that reflects which option is active. Also the 'Always
Visible', 'Auto Hide', 'Windows can Cover' and 'Windows go Below'
options are also permanently highlighted but selecting the 2nd or 3rd
option does nothing. It appears these options are highlighted because
the colour scheme I am using, which is forget-me-not thinks they are
push buttons.
Does anyone know why these don't work anymore in Fedora 23? I am using
Breeze for the Windows Style and Windows Decorations themes.
regards,
Steve

yesterday, i popped open my ASUS G752VL-DH71 to see two available
slots for SSD drives, both clearly labelled "PCIE only", so i inserted
a new samsung 950 PRO in slot 1, closed it up and booted and
(reproducing from scribbling on some paper, just the first bit):
ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: revalidation failed
etc, etc, at which point it finally dropped me into an emergency
shell.
i didn't have time to debug so i just removed it and got back to
work, but is there something i'm forgetting here? here's the samsung
page for that drive:
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro...
thoughts? like i said, i did not invest a lot of time trying to track
this down as i have way too much to do, but if there's something
stupid i've done, it would be good to know.
rday
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Everyone,
I am trying to reclaim some use out of a couple old Compaq Presaio
SR1720NX machines for the office by adding some memory and a PNY 240 GB
CS1311 SSD drives. The bios was made by Phoenix; I did not identify a
version number of the bios. I did not plan on keep the hard drive
installed and planned on just using the SSD. These machines were IDE
machines and only had two SATA ports on the motherboard.
When I install the SSD the bios recognizes the Pny SSD properly, and I
was able to set up the boot order without difficulty.
When I tried to install Fedora 24 on the first machine the installation
software did not identify the presences of the SSD. I also tried a
Centso 7.2 install disc and the SSD was not recognized with it as well.
Just to make sure things were working, I added the hard drive back to
the machine, and the Fedora install routines did recognize the hard
drive but continued to fail to recognize the SSD.
Are there preparatory things that I need to do with the SSD drives that
I am missing? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg Ennis

Good morning,
I'm now thinking that for the long term, I'm probably better off waiting
for chromium to become available in Fedora. A concern is that wikipedia
implies that code for flash-like functionality is not included in
chromium. So for the short term, I'm back to flash.
I am almost certain that 2-3 years ago, I installed flash from the adobe
web site. But it never worked. A short while ago, I tried "dnf info
flash" to see if I have it, and if so, what version. I must be
mis-understanding the dnf man page. I got this:
bash.2[~]: dnf info flash
Fedora 23 - x86_64 3.5 MB/s | 43 MB
00:12
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Free 511 kB/s | 457 kB
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Nonfree - Updates 207 kB/s | 54 kB
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Free - Updates 350 kB/s | 160 kB
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Nonfree 336 kB/s | 156 kB
00:00
Fedora 23 - x86_64 - Updates 7.6 MB/s | 24 MB
00:03
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:07 ago on Wed Jul 27 09:31:01 2016.
Error: No matching Packages to list
bash.3[~]:
First, how do I determine whether or not I already have flash, and if
so, which version?
Second, If I don't already have flash, what's the best way to get the
right flash? And then what do I need to do so Firefox launches it when,
for example, I want to see a flash video in the yahoo finance web site?
(and then there's those National Weather Service RADAR loops!)
Third, what did "dnf info flash" actually do? Do I now have a bunch of
files that I should delete? If yes, where are they?
Thank-you for your help.
Bill.
(p.s. This is one of those rare cases where I wish I could change the
title or topic of this thread!)